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 Posted - April 19 2010 : 12:06:08 PM
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I decided to build a model of a medium sized Italian train station (similar to the one in the town our study center is in) this week. I found the plans in an old Italian model train magazine I bought at the monthly antique fair in the town to the north of here. Not having my supplies of model-building materials like I would back home, I started the project using the cardboard backing of my used-up watercolor paper pads. I used strips of watercolor paper for the trim, and pizza-box cardboard for the roof. Talk about getting back to the early scratchbuilding days of the hobby!
A sudden HO scale windstorm  shows how I plan on getting it home in a few weeks (volcano permitting):
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 Posted - April 19 2010 : 12:18:07 PM
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| architrains very nice modeling good luck on getting home ken
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Posted - April 19 2010 : 1:52:43 PM
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| or you could take the QE2 or the QM2 home
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Posted - April 19 2010 : 7:31:31 PM
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| It looks great, especially considering what you used to make it. It'd be neat to make a whole layout with buildings like that. Talk about cost effective
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Posted - April 19 2010 : 8:50:33 PM
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Nice model!
I like the way you used the corrugation in the cardboard to make the roof... that is what you did, is it not?
How did you separate the plys?
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Posted - April 21 2010 : 12:07:59 PM
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The roof is indeed the corrugation from the pizza boxes. Separating the plys was extremely easy with the boxes from the pizzeria up the hill from our study center. I just grabbed a corner and pulled. I know from experience that back home in the States regular "cardboard box" corrugated cardboard doesn't come apart very easily at all. It could be because the corrugations are wider so there's more area for the glue to stick to, or the glue is stronger. My theory is since its a pizza box, the glue is something weak so it's nontoxic and biodegradable. It'll be worth testing pizza boxes and other corrugated cardboard food containers when I get home, since I really like tile roofs.
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